Watchman Press Reviewed Scripture Study
A Body Prepared: Messiah Comes to Do God's Will
Psalms 40:7 ↔ Hebrews 10:7
Scripture Text
Read the Relationship in Young’s Literal Translation
Psalms 40:7
7 Then said I, 'Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me,
Hebrews 10:7
7 then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;'
Editorial Analysis
Watchman Press Review
The following classifications and notes are reviewed Watchman Press editorial analysis. They are separate from the biblical text and from the raw cross-reference dataset.
A Body Prepared: Messiah Comes to Do God's Will
Hebrews places the Psalm's language on the lips of Christ as He comes into the world and uses it to explain His obedient self-offering.
The passage contrasts repeated sacrificial offerings with the Messiah's willing obedience. Christ comes to do God's will and His offering establishes what the former sacrifices could not complete.
Evidence / source note
Project sources reviewed: Young's Literal Translation, the 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and the JPS 1917 Tanakh.
A Body Prepared: Messiah Comes to Do God's Will
Hebrews directly quotes the Psalm while explicitly framing the speaker as Christ coming into the world.
The New Testament interpretation controls the relationship and turns the Psalm into part of Hebrews' argument for the sufficiency of Christ's offering.
Evidence / source note
Project sources reviewed: Young's Literal Translation, the 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and the JPS 1917 Tanakh.
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